Top best Civil Lawyers Near me in ZIP 98402

Tim Lewis joined Puget Law Group in September 2021. Tim is a former prosecutor with nearly 20 years of courtroom experience. He has tried over 100 jury trials involving charges ranging from simple misdemeanors to the most serious felonies.. Tim grew up in a military family before attending the University of Washington and University of Iowa College of Law. After completing law school, Tim began his career as deputy prosecuting attorney. During his career as a prosecutor, Tim served as Team Chief of the Property Crimes Unit, the Fugitive and Extraditions Unit, the Special Assault Unit, Chief of the Misdemeanor Division, and Chief of the Felony Division. Tim also spent time supervising the misdemeanor team of attorneys in District Court.. In addition to his experience as a trial attorney, Tim is an active member of the Kitsap and Pierce County Bar Associations. Tim has also served as a Pro Tem Judge in the municipal courts of Lakewood, Bremerton, Gig Harbor, and Buckley.

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Nicholas (Cole) Douglas is a partner at Cochran Douglas, which has its offices in Tacoma, Washington. Concentrating his practice on personal injury matters, ranging from car accidents to product liability and wrongful death, he also takes on sexual abuse cases, serving clients throughout the state of Washington.. Douglas is a compassionate and empathic attorney, taking the time to listen to his clients and answering all their questions. He provides personalized solutions for each of his clients cases and understands the pain they must be going through, especially when they are injured by another person’s careless actions.. Graduating cum laude and with dean’s list honors, Douglas obtained his Juris Doctor from the Seattle University School of Law. He received his bachelor’s degree in psychology from the Willamette University and a Master of Business Administration degree from Willamette University’s Atkinson Graduate School of Management.. Douglas is licensed to practice in Washington and before the United States District Court for the Western and Eastern Districts of Washington. He has received much recognition for his contributions to the field of law, including being named to the Top 40 Under 40 and Top 100 by The National Trial Lawyers, and receiving an Avvo rating of 10 out of 10. Douglas was also recently selected to the 40 Under 40 List by the South Sound Business Journal, and the On the Rise List by the American Bar Association, recognizing the top 40 young lawyers in nation.. Active in his affiliations with the legal community, Mr. Douglas is a member of the Honorable Robert J. Bryan American Inns of Court, the American Bar Association, the American Association for Justice, the King County Bar Association and the Thurston County Bar Association. He is also an Eagle member of the Washington State Association for Justice and the past president of the Tacoma-Pierce County Bar Association’s New & Young Lawyers Section.

Mike Shaffer and the Gordon Thomas Honeywell Personal Injury Group represent injured persons in trial, including widely-recognized success in trials and settlements helping those injured by childhood sexual abuse.

Mr. Shaffer's practice also includes lawsuits and arbitrations for customers damaged by the negligence of their securities brokers and financial consultants.

Leslie Clark focuses her practice on land use and environmental issues and related litigation.  Her experience includes advising private and public sector clients on land development and entitlement issues; testing statutory and constitutional limits of land use regulation by counties and cities; evaluating rates and taxing authority of municipalities; serving as general counsel to Washington special purpose districts; litigating a broad range of civil matters including shoreline, environmental impact, breach of contract, employment, and civil fraud issues.. Leslie has published on land use and environmental topics, including the evolving regulatory takings and cleanup apportionment laws.. Prior to joining Phillips Burgess PLLC in January 2015, Leslie worked for two Seattle law firms, where her practice focused on land use, environmental, and municipal matters.  Representative work included analyzing water districts’ authority to set and collect connection and development charges; prevailing on a port district’s interpretation of Washington’s Open Public Meetings Act; and establishing federal cleanup liability against a Canadian smelting corporation.. Before becoming an attorney, Leslie served as a land use planner for municipalities in Washington, Utah, and Louisiana.

I was born and raised in Tacoma, Washington. After graduation from Wilson High School in 1977, I obtained my B.A. in Psychology and Film Communications from Pitzer College in Claremont, California in 1981. Three years later, I graduated from law school with a J.D. from Case Western Reserve in Cleveland, Ohio.. I spent six years living and working as an attorney in Sacramento and Los Angeles, California before returning to Tacoma in 1991. After working as an associate and partner at a large firm in Tacoma, I opened my own office in 2010.. I have other thirty years of experience handling a wide variety of civil and criminal cases from trial through appeal in state and federal courts. My main practice areas include employment, business and personal injury litigation.

I run specialized practice helping all sorts of small businesses and individuals with whatever problems they may have from thier daily transactions to full press Federal litigation, and everywhere in between.  I also have an extensive background in copyright, trademark and entertainement, making me a great resource for artists, venues, and anyone else in those fields or associated with them.

I live in Tacoma, Washington with my wife and our daughters.  I grew Yakima, Washington on an apple and pear orchard.  My practices takes me all over the State of Washington.. I work on all types of personal injury cases including motor vehicle collisions, premises liability trip and fall incidents, product liability injuries, worksite and construction site injuries, and nursing home injuries.  I have a particular interest in cases involving recreational injuries.  I frequently work on cases involving skier/snowboarder collisions, injuries at gyms and healthclubs, injuries in the outdoors, scuba, mudruns, bicycle accidents, equestrian injuries, boating accidents, and swimming pool and waterslide injuries.  As an avid motorcyclist, I help create and launch Evergreen Motorcycle Attorneys where I work with motorcyclists injuried on the road.. I try to blend my passions outside of the office with the cases I frequently work on.  This experience helps me better understand how my clients were injuried and helps me better represent them. As a U.S. Coast Guard licensed captain with years of boating experience, I bring expertise and training to boating and watercraft injuries.  I am also certified scuba driver.  I bring years of experience and training to my cases involving injuries in the mountains and on the ski slopes.  I am certified by the American Avalanche Association at Level II Avalanche Processes and Leadership.  I am a former professional ski instructor where I was formerly certified at Level II by PSIA in the Rocky Mountain Division.  For my clients injured on two wheels while motorcycling, I bring years of experience as an avid motorcyclist having logged tens of thousands of miles on and off road.. I am actively involved in the bar association.  I recently served as 2020 President of the Tacoma Pierce County Bar Association.  I am currently serving as vice president of the Tacoma Pro Bono Board.  I have served on numerous committees and appointments.  I am frequent speaker at continuing legal education seminars involving personal injury topics.. When I'm not litigating injury cases for my clients, I love to spend time with my family out on the water, in the mountains skiing or riding off road motorcycles.

Experienced Civil attorney serving clients in Tacoma and surrounding areas.

Experienced Civil attorney serving clients in Tacoma and surrounding areas.

Experienced Civil attorney serving clients in Tacoma and surrounding areas.

Experienced Civil attorney serving clients in Tacoma and surrounding areas.

Experienced Civil attorney serving clients in Tacoma and surrounding areas.

Experienced Civil attorney serving clients in Tacoma and surrounding areas.

Experienced Civil attorney serving clients in Tacoma and surrounding areas.

Experienced Civil attorney serving clients in Tacoma and surrounding areas.

Experienced Civil attorney serving clients in Tacoma and surrounding areas.

Experienced Civil attorney serving clients in Tacoma and surrounding areas.

Experienced Civil attorney serving clients in Tacoma and surrounding areas.

Experienced Civil attorney serving clients in Tacoma and surrounding areas.